America.

I'm watching the John Adams mini series right now.  I keep choking up when wounded militia are shown.  It made me think.  I have no connection to these events in reality.  My people came much later.   My people.  The poor Irish.  The impoverished Sicilians.  

John Adams.  Thomas Jefferson.  Bunker Hill.  July 4th.  People, events, dates that mean nothing in my own heritage.

Yet I choke up?  Maybe it's the full orchestra in the back ground, pulling at my heart strings.